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IU's Katherine Receveur is 3rd in NCAA 5,000 meters

David Woods, david.woods@indystar.com
Published 9:51 p.m. ET June 10, 2017

UC Santa Barbara's Tori Usgaard, left, Oregon State's Kara Hallock, center, and Nevada's Nicole Wadden, right, cross the finish line in a heat of the heptathlon 200 meters on the third day of the NCAA outdoor college track and field championships in Eugene, Ore., Friday, June 9, 2017.(Photo: Timothy Gonzelez, AP)

Indiana sophomore Katherine Receveur finished third in the 5,000 meters in the women’s NCAA Track and Field Championships on Saturday night at Eugene, Ore.

In team standings, the Hoosiers finished 19th with 11 points and Purdue 21st with 10. Oregon set a collegiate record of 3 minutes, 23.13 seconds in the closing 1,600-meter relay to edge Georgia for the team title, 64-62.2.

Receveur’s time was 15:44.80. Missouri’s Karissa Schweitzer, an NCAA champion in cross-country and the indoor 5,000, won the outdoor 5,000 in 15:38.93.

For the Boilermakers' Big Ten champions, Devynne Charlton was fifth in the 100-meter hurdles in 12.74 and Symone Black seventh in the 400 hurdles in 57.15.

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